WIPO

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Jean-Charles Guibert, CEA, Chairman of MINATEC®. Jean-Charles Guibert graduated early 80’s in Polymer science. During his career in CEA (the largest French RTO, 15.000 staff, 4.3B€), Jean-Charles was actively involved in microelectronics in Leti, then during 12 years Director of the Technology Transfer activities of CEA, and then senior advisor to the CEO. Jean-Charles Guibert is presently Chairman of MINATEC, one of the largest innovation campus worldwide. Jean-Charles Guibert is also an expert for the European commission and multiple national authorities for innovation activities in the field of new technologies. He is a permanent member of the commission in charge to evaluate French innovation policies. He is also at the board of different private sector companies as well as non-profit organisations related to technology transfer activities, like the European TTO circle. Jean-Charles Guibert was awarded the French ‟Ordre National du Mérite”, the Vietnamese “Friendship order”, and is Doctor Honoris Causa of INRS, Université of Quebec, Canada.

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She is currently vice-president\r\nof LES International and past chair of the LESI Industry University Government\r\nTransactions Committee","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/c69e3837-8119-480c-835b-8a0bb3c92466.jpg","name":"Ms. Karin Hofmann","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224255,"bio":"Dr. Dariusz Kasprzycki is a researcher at\r\nthe Intellectual Property Law Chair of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.\r\nHe specializes in industrial property law, unfair competition law and TT and IP\r\nmanagement. He is an author of numerous publications in these fields. Over the\r\npast 15 years, Dariusz Kasprzycki has been involved in many national and\r\ninternational projects in the field of IP management at HEIs, including: China\r\nIntellectual Property Management Network (CIPnet); La Red de Propriedad\r\nIntelectual de Latin America (PILA). In the recent year, he was Director of the\r\nJoint Master's Studies in Intellectual Property and New Technologies conducted\r\nin cooperation with the WIPO Academy and the Polish Patent Office.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/1bd4e79d-5f79-47cc-81bf-920e9924e031.jpg","name":"Dr. Dariusz Kasprzycki","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224264,"bio":"Asier Rufino is the co-founder and CEO of Tecnalia Ventures,\r\nTecnalia´s deep tech venture builder. He previously worked for both blue-chip\r\nOrganizations such as: Accenture (Ireland), BNP Paribas (France), The Parthenon\r\nGroup (UK-USAUAE, Dubai), Eli Lilly (UK), Gilead (UK-Turkey) and smaller\r\nOrganizations (startups and SMEs) always focusing on corporate innovation;\r\nearly stage investment and deep tech entrepreneurship. Asier is the co-founder\r\nof Microwave Ventures; board member of several deeptech start-ups; a professor\r\nat Deusto Business School’s Finance and Entrepreneurship Masters; and an EC\r\nExpert on Innovation in SMEs. Asier holds an MBA from London Business School /\r\nSloan MIT and a BA from the Basque Country University-Université de Reims.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/62a7d6e9-e47a-47c3-844a-1df901d000d2.png","name":"Mr. Asier Rufino","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224266,"bio":"Carolina I. Sepúlveda completed a Bachelor in Law degree in Chile and\r\npostgraduate studies in Law at the University of London. She holds a Diploma in\r\nCorporate Governance from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Chief of\r\nstaff at the Chilean Industrial Property Office, former Head of the\r\nIntellectual Property Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carolina was\r\nin charge of intellectual property negotiations at the bilateral and\r\nmultilateral level. She was an advisor on technology transfer (TT) and\r\nregulatory matters at the Chilean development agency, “Corfo”, where she was in\r\ncharge of the design and implementation of a national innovation strategy on\r\nbiotechnology. She was the CEO of Intangible Consulting Services which offers\r\nconsulting services on IP and TT to universities, R&D Centers and the\r\ncorporate sector in Chile. Her main publications include “International\r\nTechnology Transfer to Promote Access and Innovation in Times of Global Crisis”\r\nLes Nouvelles, March 2021, and “Guidelines to develop intellectual property\r\npolicies for Universities” FIA- PIPRA, 2012.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/f631b1ac-9c80-404a-bc29-4eb4d2517825.png","name":"Ms. Carolina I. Sepúlveda","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224271,"bio":"Olga Spasic, Head, Technology Transfer Section, IP for Innovators’ Department, IP\r\nand Innovation Ecosystem Sector, the World Intellectual Property Organization\r\n(WIPO), provides assistance and support to WIPO Member States and their\r\ninnovation stakeholders in establishing institutional innovation ecosystems of\r\ninterconnected public and private structural elements (policies, organizations,\r\nfunds, people) and relationships in academic institutions and in assessing and\r\nimproving their respective technology transfer systems. She is creating and\r\nleading WIPO long term impact projects and capacity building programs for\r\nacademic institutions on enabling technology transfer policies, structures,\r\nhuman capital and capacity of stakeholders to face market challenges – IP\r\nmarketing, IP valuation. Creator and\r\nleader of Projects such as Assessment of National Technology Transfer Systems\r\nwith Recommendations for Improvements, Pilot Project on Establishment of TTOs\r\nin the Arab Region, Creation of TTO Network of Baltic States, Development of\r\nInstitutional IP Policies in Universities and Research Institutions in number\r\nof WIPO Member States.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/ae064c49-3330-48b1-9c64-343655a31728.jpg","name":"Ms. Olga Spasic","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224274,"bio":"Anja von der Ropp is Senior Program Coordinator, Climate Change\r\nand Food Security, at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). She\r\nestablished and manages the WIPO GREEN marketplace for sustainable technology.\r\nWIPO GREEN was launched in 2013 to help accelerate green innovation and\r\ndiffusion of sustainable technologies. Ms. von der Ropp has more than 20 years’\r\nexperience in intellectual property and innovation in relation to global public\r\npolicy issues such as climate change, food security and public health. Prior to\r\njoining WIPO in 2005, she worked as a journalist in Berlin covering matters\r\nrelated to European health law and policy and as a researcher and lecturer at\r\nthe University of Bremen, specializing in Intellectual Property Law. She holds\r\na Master's Degree in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/ab5a4850-8d45-40bf-8853-fdaed48ed005.jpg","name":"Ms. Anja von der Ropp","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224277,"bio":"Audrey Yap LL.B (Hons) LL.M is the Managing Partner of ASEAN regional law firm Yusarn Audrey a boutique intellectual property and commercial law practice offering legal and intellectual capital management as part of an integrated suite of IP solutions. Audrey is also Registered Singapore Patent Attorney, Advocate & Solicitor of Singapore and Malaysia and admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales. She is a Commissioner for Oaths & Notary Public. She is an accredited professional management consultant under TUV SUD SG and certified patent valuation analyst. Audrey is a Member of the Board of Directors of the IP Office of Singapore (IPOS) and a Steering Committee member of the WIPO-World Economic Forum global Inventor Assistance Program (IAP). She is an elected member of the Singapore Manufacturers Federation (SMF) and appointed Chairman of the Singapore Innovation & Productivity Institute (SIPI). Audrey served as a Board member of Enterprise Singapore, an agency under the Ministry of Trade & Industry from 2018 - 2020. Audrey continues to serve as IP Expert for several international and regional WIPO and EPO projects. Audrey has been listed as one of IAM’s World’s Leading IP Strategists since 2009 to date. Audrey has received many accolades including being named as one of Singapore’s leading lawyer. She is immediate past President of LES International, Council member of the Singapore Business Federation SMEC Committee, and legal counsel for the Franchise and Licensing Association Singapore.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/626a3fb9-a3f1-4cf7-ac47-6ee747f38dd9.jpg","name":"Ms. Audrey Yap","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224278,"bio":"Greta Zekiene – Head of Intellectual Property Management at National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre (Technology Transfer Office) at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania. A specialist with more than 20 years of experience in this field is convinced that what is unknown cannot be protected and what is not protected cannot be commercialized. Therefore, she active consults members of KTU society on intellectual property protection and management issues, is responsible for PATLIB center activities, participates in national and international projects and working groups, organizes training events and presents her practice making presentations and lectures at various events. She is responsible for the management of KTU intellectual property as well as on technology transfer, holds all responsibilities of all PATLIB center activities , active consults members of academic and business society on intellectual property protection and management issues, participates in national and international IP working groups meetings, workshops and events (EPO Projects, PATLIB network, ECIU (Europen Consortium of Innovative Universities) IP working group, WIPO projects, ASTP-Proton, EIRMA etc.), holds WIPO certificate for The capacity building program in the framework of Baltic States pilot project on the development of a regional poll of IP commercialization experts (2018). Greta is a representative of TTO Lithuania network established in 2020 with the support of WIPO and Lithuanian Patent Office. She has been working for 10 years at the Lithuanian Association of Copyright Protection (LATGA), for 5 years in the biggest Lithuanian publishing houses \"Sviesa\" and \"Alma littera\" and was responsible for IP protection, rights buying and selling. Managed more than 300 licensing agreements and about 100 new contacts per year. Joined KTU in 2015","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/fff644d7-62e4-449e-b270-7dca96b3f9e1.jpg","name":"Ms. Greta Zekiene","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224282,"bio":"Marli Elizabeth Ritter dos Santos was born in Brazil, on June 16, 1953. With a PhD in Administration Sciences (2005) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she has been working for more than 15 years in innovation and technology transfer management, most notably as University Technology Transfer Manager. Ms. Ritter dos Santos has given courses and lectures about intellectual property and academic technology transfer management in Brazil and abroad. From May 2006 to April 2010, she was President of the Brazilian Forum of Innovation and Technology Transfer Managers (FORTEC), an association that put academic technology transfer managers together. Currently, she serves on FORTEC's Board of Directors. From 2011 to 2018, she had a position on the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Association of Innovative Enterprises (ANPEI). From 2017 to 2021, she integrated the Board of Directors of the Ibero-Latin American Association of Technology Management (ALTEC). In April 2018, she obtained her certification as Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP), a credential conferred by the Alliance for Technology Transfer Professional (ATTP), being the first Brazilian professional to obtain this certification.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/1dc914f7-6932-4c97-96e6-8fdf570c4fb7.jpg","name":"Ms. Marli Elizabeth Ritter dos Santos","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":225502,"bio":"

Mr. Bai Guangqing

Director General, International Cooperation Department, China National Intellectual Property Administration, China

Mr. Bai Guangqing is the Director General of International Cooperation Department of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). He has been working in the field of Intellectual Property for more than three decades since joining the CNIPA as a patent examiner in the area of Chemistry in 1989. He has worked for several years at the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), CNIPA and was appointed as Deputy Director General of PRB in 2004. In 2006-2007, Mr. Bai served on secondment as Deputy Mayor of Huang Shi City, Hubei Province, with special responsibility for innovation, competitiveness and Industrial Property policy. He graduated from School of Medicine, Peking University. His postgraduate qualifications consist of a master degree in Law from Peking University, and an EMBA from School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. In 2002, he studied Intellectual Property Law at John Marshall Law School, United States as a visiting scholar.

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